My Foray into My Midwestern Roots

At Least It Wasn’t Moonshine!

There’s a running joke in my family that my dad’s side of the family are either teetotalers or they drink like a fish. Apparently a bottle of pimentio extract caused quite a stir back in 1927.

I guess that not even this was allowed during Prohibition!

Background: Stanley Amore was my great-grandfather’s nephew (1st cousin to my grandfather). He was born in January 1880 to George Washington Amore and Catheirne Burden. Stanley was a restauranteur, the oldest child of the family, never married, and died on September 30, 1929 at the age 49 from Bright’s Disease. He was interred at Plainfield Cemetery in Coshocton County, Ohio.